Julia+Rogers

**SUMMARY:** **T.R.M. Howard performed the fatal abortion on 20-year-old Julia Rogers at this Friendship Medical Center in Chicago, IL. She died on April 28, 1973.**

 Survivors of Julia L. Rogers, age 20, alleged that she underwent a safe and legal abortion performed by Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard (pictured) at his Friendship Medical Center in Chicago on April 21, 1973.

Julia's death certificate states that her death April 28 at Tabernacle Hospital was due to "bronchopneumonia and generalized peritonitis complicating extensive necrotizing endometritis and myometritis with sealed perforation."

In other words, she developed pneumonia on top of peritonitis. A hole had been poked in her uterus, causing an [|infection] that made the muscle tissue of her uterus start to rot inside her.

Evelyn Dudley and Dorothy Brown also died after abortions at Friendship Medical Center.

Of course, supporters of legalized abortion will argue that while tragic, such deaths are less common now than they otherwise would have been. As you can see from the graph below, abortion deaths were falling dramatically before legalization. This steep fall had been in place for decades. To argue that legalization lowered abortion mortality simply isn't supported by the data.



 Sources:
 * //Chicago Sun-Times// 11-19-78, "The Abortion Profiteers"
 * //Chicago Tribune// 4-30-73, 7-17-73
 * "Probe death here after abortion," //Chicago Tribune//, May 3, 1973
 * Death Certificate No. C612195
 * "Suit Filed in Illinois After Abortion Death," //Omaha World Herald//, July 18, 1973





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